Description
MY DESIGN IDEAS AND ADVICE
This sleeveless top is knitted from the bottom up in the round and then worked in rows when you split for the front and back at the armholes. It’s a lovely project to start your knitting in the round journey – and because there are no stitches to pick up, it’s a simple, easy-to-knit design. It’s also a lovely relaxed knit to wear that transforms any outfit.
For more experienced knitters, it’s a relaxing knit you can pick up and enjoy at any time. There’s a plain knit round followed by a round with a little knit and purl detail – one of my favourite rib textures, which you’ll spot in several of my patterns. I love playing around with this stitch technique on the garment and there are small details that make this top so joyous to knit.
CONSTRUCTION
The back and front are knitted in the round in one piece from the bottom up, then divided to knit the back and then front in rows. There are no stitches to pick up.
TECHNIQUES USED
Knitting in the round and rows. Cast on, knit, purl, decreasing at the neck shaping, cast off. Joining shoulder seams. Optional but recommended to create the feeling of joy when joining your pieces: three needle cast off.
YARN
3(4:5) 100g hanks of BRE Donegal Twists DK in shade A
72% Merino & 28% British wool 270m/295yds per 100g.
SUGGESTED KNITTING NEEDLES
3.75mm & 4mm circular needles with a length of 100cm.
GAUGE (tension)
20 stitches and 28 rows to 10cm/4ins square over wide garter stitch rib pattern. I obtained this gauge with 4mm needles.
It is important to obtain the correct gauge so do work a swatch before you start the pattern and change your needle size to achieve the correct gauge if you need to.
FINISHED MEASUREMENTS
I recommend a positive ease of 5-15ins/12-38cm at the chest.
Size | |||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Actual Chest Circumference | |||
| 120 | 136 | 152 | cm |
| 47¼ | 53½ | 59¾ | ins |
Length (from shoulder) | |||
| 56 | 64 | 72 | cm |
| 22 | 25¼ | 28¼ | ins |
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